👁️ Medicinal Plants for Eyes
With the eyes, caution is the first rule. Home-made eye baths are not advisable, because infusions quickly carry germs — whatever enters the eye must be sterile. Tradition offers eyebright, whose name comes from the medieval doctrine of signatures. Persistent redness, pain or disturbed vision always belong with an eye doctor.
24 plants from our database are traditionally associated with Eyes – each with a profile, active compounds, safety notes and sources. Poisonous and legally controlled species are deliberately left out of this list; they remain reachable through the search and the plant index.
These plants are traditionally used for the listed conditions. Not medical advice — consult a doctor or pharmacist for persistent symptoms.
Raw carrots are one of the richest plant sources of provitamin A (beta-carotene).
Cooled, double-filtered infusion as a moist compress for mild, non-infectious eyelid irritation.
Cucumber eye compresses: fresh, chilled cucumber slices placed on closed eyelids (5–15 minutes).
Historically, diluted latex from poinsettia was used in Mexico as a remedy for warts: a few drops applied directly to the wart.
Traditionally, cool flower infusions were used as eye baths or compresses for minor eye inflammation and conjunctival redness.
The milky white latex that exudes from cut leaves or shoots can irritate sensitive skin and trigger allergic contact dermatitis.
Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest (Salish, Okanagan, Stl'atl'imx, Nlaka'pamux) historically used crushed berries and bark decoctions exte…
Fresh or dried C.
In the folk medicine of various cultures (Dalmatia, Turkey, the Near East), chard is considered a stomach-friendly and liver-supportive vegetable.
A simple folk use: thin zucchini slices briefly applied to irritated or mildly sun-stressed skin — the high water content and polyphenols are said…
Poultice from crushed leaves for burns, abrasions, and inflamed skin.
Lutein and zeaxanthin source for eye health support — clinically substantiated (AREDS2) for reduced AMD risk; fat substantially improves bioavailab…
In European folk medicine, compresses and washes with D.
In Central European household tradition, chilled washed lettuce leaves were placed as a cooling compress on tired, swollen eyelids, mildly irritate…
Fresh or rewarmed leaves applied as a poultice to bruises (especially black eyes) and contusions.
Tagetes essential oil: spot-applied, strongly diluted on calluses, corns or fungal nails.
Chives contain approx.
Beechnuts have been used as food since antiquity (40% oil, 23% protein, 22% starch).
Phytodolor®, a standardised combination of extracts from Populus tremula, Fraxinus excelsior, and Solidago virgaurea, is the best-documented phytot…
In wild-food cookery, fully ripe rose hips are eaten straight from the bush: gently squeeze the fruit between the fingers, open at the stem end and…
The layered, papery-skinned storage bulb of this amaryllis-family vegetable releases sulphur compounds on cutting that are responsible for its shar…
Raw, quince is barely edible — hard, tart and covered in fine down — but once cooked it releases an intense, honeyed fragrance that has earned it a…
The intensely sweet, spicy scent of meadowsweet's dense creamy-white flower clusters gives the plant its name and draws it to damp meadows and stre…
Growing tall along riverbanks and damp ground, this tree with silvery shimmering leaves belongs to the willow family (Salicaceae).
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